Oh, the randomness ...

Seeing through darkness

2009-05-26T00:09:00.003+10:00

One sunny Saturday afternoon in Sydney, Jen, Blanca and Bri decided to go to the Art Gallery of NSW to see the Archibald Prize finalists.

My absolute favourites:

Vincent Fantauzzo

Brandon

Jen and I were mesmorised. We couldn't believe that this was actually a painting and not a photograph. It was all about the eyes, so full of emotion, gorgeous big brown eyes. My favourite piece out of them all.

Guy Maestri

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Gurrumul! There is no doubt why this portrait won. I think I'm drawn to this painting because I know the story behind it. I love that you cannot see his eyes, portraying his blindness. Complete contrast to my favourite piece.

Link:
Archibald Prize

How?

2009-03-05T23:36:00.003+11:00

How can you focus on study if your mind is exploring different countries
... thinking about different cultures
........calculating budgets
.............brainstorming dates

How can you make the most of now when you're trapped in the future
... planning what to do
........ adding to the to-do list
............... seeing if it will all fit

How can you let the trapped nomad out when you are tied down to the present
... signed to corporate world
........ stuck in classes learning about best practices
............... looking forward to drinks

Pause on Life

2009-01-30T00:54:00.002+11:00

So much is happening around me, so many thoughts and yet I can't bring myself to focus on the one thing that I need closure on.

The Heat. Impossible to think; to function; to be comfortable.

Work. So much to do, not enough people nor time. Will I be back in February?

Indifference. What once was love.

Uni. Final year; cannot wait until March. Normality. Friends. Sanity.

Lust. Something I haven't felt for a long time. Exciting.

Japan. Less than 48 hours; Winter; my birthday. Peace of mind.

ACS. IWD Breakfast almost organised. New challenge.

AIESEC. Re-connecting with those I drifted from or never quite got to know. Possibilities.

So many thoughts distracted me from another year going by, until today. Finally realised it's my birthday next week, tres exciting. Happy Birthday Me.

Note to self: look after Bri a bit more.

happy

2008-06-18T22:27:00.005+10:00

Monday afternoon I was walking home from the Museum. Going past St. Paul's I noticed some graffiti on the pavement. Instant smile. The same one had been in Yarra Park and I pass it every morning on my way to the station.

Favourites:
E.W. Cole
The Melbourne Story

Pictures of You

2008-02-29T10:15:00.005+11:00

This is the clock up on the wall
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a new born child before he starts to crawl

This is the war that's never won
This is the soldier and his gun
This is the mother waiting by the phone praying for her son

(chorus)
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung up on your wall for the world to see

Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be

Woooah

There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab just waiting for the call

This earthquake weather has got me shaking
Inside i'm high up and dry

(chorus)
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung up on your wall for the world to see

Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be

Confess to me
Every secret moment
Every stolen promise you've believed

Confess to me
All that lies between us
All that lies between you and me

We are the boxers in the ring
We are the bells that never sing
There is a title we cant win no matter how hard we must swing

(chorus)
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung up on your wall for the world to see

Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been

(chorus)
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung up on your wall for the world to see

Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been
What could have been
We could have been

Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been
What could have been

Easily Amused

2008-01-11T15:34:00.000+11:00

Entertaining myself, I stumbled across Calvin & Hobbes and started going through the comics. I just came across this one and thought it was really cute and then the last part was funny.

And it is true; it's hard to be a mum for a mum.

For the Birds

2007-10-30T16:18:00.000+11:00

I've always loved this video. Thanks to Elo for sending me the link for YouTube =)

Balloons Everywhere

2007-10-29T22:18:00.000+11:00

For the record, I want to do this:

Stayin' Alive!

2007-10-08T15:36:00.000+10:00

The aim of the game is simply to stay alive.

Mum and Dad left for their 6 week trip on Saturday and left me in charge of three lives (dogs plus me).

Day 1
Par-tay! Everything good; dogs alive, fed and walked, I'm alive and semi-fed.

Day 2
Bored. Nothing to do. Too many people at the Gueggenheim Exhibition. Plan to see it again in NYC. Dogs still alive.

Day 3
All hell breaks loose. Slice finger. In pain. Nearly home time and I'm not awake. Dogs are somehow alive. Two gate-crashes living at my place.

Who knows what is going to happen for the other 39 days.

October Favourites:
Romping
Fringe
Finding Pixar
Abstraction

The truth behind happiness

2007-09-12T18:48:00.000+10:00

And she's back!

Today I was reading my Big Issue and the cover article. It was all about the 'pursuit of happiness' and what that really means. (Did you know there is a Happy Institute in Sydney?) Four page article made simple: they're right, happiness is in the little things. This got me thinking about what makes me happy, and this simple thought put me in a great mood on my walk home from work.

Off topic: My sheepie is making me giggle because she keeps walking around in circles looking for somewhere to sit. I've stolen her chair tehehee.

I'm off to Sydney soon. I'm so excited, (possibly) my last aiesec conference and an extra weekend just for me. It will be great to see friends and explore the city, as well as getting up to (the regular) mischief at conference. I'm determined to make it to the Lindt café this time.

Mum and Dad are leaving me to see the world. Next month they'll be away for 6 weeks and I'll have to fend for myself. I'm trying to go through Mum's million cook books to find recipes that I like and put them into my new folder. I'm semi looking forward to it, but at the same time, its hard to look after our house when you're never here.

A few 'happy' thoughts to finish off with...

Peace out.

September Links:

September Favourites:

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Feel

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Me in a nutshell

2007-05-16T18:46:00.000+10:00

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Hoping ...

2007-05-15T23:22:00.000+10:00

It's been five months since I last posted on here. My excuse, which I shouldn't have, is that there has been so much, and yet nothing exciting enough, to post on here. Of course there is the usual stuff:
- AIESEC Australia January National Conference; the hardest part about being a friend and a leader
- actually having a functional LC, doing ... stuff
- AIESEC Victoria State Conference; so much work went into it, so much was learnt, apparently it raised the bar higher, it's great because it's over
- second year at uni .... apparently; new subjects, new challenges, new nerd tendencies, hopefully not going to fail anything .... no co-op otherwise
- my sister and her husband left for the US indefinitely
- Basham grandchild #8 & my niece was born
- finally got my P's
- longest relationship
- tonsillitis ... so much fun
- etc. etc. more excuses

I don't know if I'm letting my emotions come into play, even though some would be surprised to actually know that I have emotions. I don't want to put it this way, but it will only come to me like this:

time and time again, people let me down.

I like to think that I'm a people person, and hopefully I am. My worst moments (i.e. currently) only happen when I have no interaction with others. People are my energy, and if and when someone lets me down, it can affect me greatly.

My parents let me down when they forget my birthdays.
I let myself down with various uni marks.
Others let me down when a meeting is cancelled .... or pushed back .... continuiously.
I've let myself down learning about the past.

The last one is what affects me the most, as it has tonight. It opens up the boxed up questions, comparisions between selves, trust being tested, barriers returning and more.

I guess, the one time I actually feel compelled to post, is the one time which I shouldn't.

I guess there's still hope ....

Balloon face!

2006-12-07T20:25:00.000+11:00

Yeah, its been ages. Oh well. My life is uneventful anyways.

So, I had my wisdom teeth pulled out yesterday. Finally! I have a very odd face at the moment, hehe. If you're looking at me front on, the right side is fine and my left side is a balloon! We think its because the teeth on that side were still under the gum, unlike the other side. I'm not in too much pain, which is great. And I know that once it heals, it will be all worth it. The best part about surgery was that I had to wait so long and got the chance to read about half of Memoirs of a Geisha which I haven't had the chance to read since last summer.

On other teeth news, I got my permnant lower jaw plate removed on Tuesday! YAY! i've had that plate for about three and a half years. Its great to finally have it off. We had to wait for my wisom teeth to be removed first, so that was a reward in itself.

Hahaha! They just called Dakota Fanning a screen vetran! And how old is she?! What a joke!

*snort* I loveWill & Grace! Sorry, just watching it on Areana. We get Foxtel upgrade tomorrow!! Yay!! More movies!! No way you'll get me away from the TV now. Heheheeeeeee

I don't know what else to write and my head is currently swimming with three types of drugs. Whoooo, might go and concentrate on the TV before I pass out in bed again.

Baaaa

Heeeeeeee

2006-11-02T22:03:00.000+11:00

I'm in an extremely weird mood because I ate most of my triple chocolate ice cream (2L) and haven't had much else since lunch. Hmm, I think that's a sign that I should cook some proper dinner, but I just can't be f---ed. I could also go and get some of the cookies. Even that requires effort, and again, cbf.

Tangent:

I've become strangely fasinated by the show Seconds From Disaster on National Geographic. It is morbidly fascinating and I can never flip past it when I am surfing the channels for something to watch. Currently, its a doco about an explosion in a business building in Puerto Rico. I'm sad the shop owner at the bottom of the building was killed :( They're currenlty trying to work it out and think it was a gas explosion from the city's supply, because they have already ruled out arsen and a bomb attack. Apparently its methane or propane, so their investigating.

I think its really interesting how really simple things can explain to the investigators what happened. A steel beam survived the explosion, except something has make it stretch as if something haspushed it upwards. So, their believe it was propane which caused the blast (because it is heavier than air and sinks to the ground). This leads them to find that the area and streets around the building were covered in propane. The investigation found that there were extra pipes below the ground which weren't being used, the gas companies maps weren't helpful because the unmarked pipe was never transferred to their original maps.

Sooooo, after all this, there is a pipe being linked to a chicken takeaway store (24 metres away), hence the propane gas. This pipe split because of watermain repairs which put pressure on the pipe. This allowed the leaking propane to move around underground and therefore move towards the office building and become trapped in its basement. Hence, the explosion .... for some reason.

It goes back to the gas company not finding the gas because their test holes weren't deep enough, the maps not being up-to-date and the gas sniffer machine wasn't working incorrectly. Bad gas company!

The actual ignition was because of a spark from the thermostat in the basement, where an airconditioning repairman was.

Thirty-three people were killed in the blast.

See, I find it interesting. Soooo, I'm going to leave it there because I should really eat something nutritious, hang out my washing and put out the bins. Can't wait for the 'rents to be back for that stuff to be "automatically" done. Heee

Peace out.

Nearly party time!

2006-11-02T12:11:00.000+11:00

Three down!!!

The first week of exams is over and I only have one exam left next week! Yay! :D

That was all I wanted to post for now ...

Peace out

Welcome

2006-10-17T18:12:00.000+10:00

Finally got my act into gear and created a Blogger account. We'll see just how often I update if it took me so long to create an account ....

Look around. If you see anything, let me know. There's not much, trust me.

Peace out.